Auction 70
Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Mar 31, 2020
Israel
8 Ramban St, Jerusalem.
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LOT 424:
Jewish Leaders - Composite Photograph - Portraits of Notables and Rabbis - Hamburg, 1876
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Auction house commission: 23%
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Jewish Leaders - Composite Photograph - Portraits of Notables and Rabbis - Hamburg, 1876
"Gedolei Israel" [Jewish Leaders] - Composite photograph with captions. "Composed by Yisrael… Wiesen, sofer… prayer leader and posek from Hungary, here in Hamburg". [Hamburg, 1876].
Portraits of forty-four rabbis, public figures, maskilim, doctors and scholars; mostly from Germany, Holland, Poland, England and France. These include: Moses Montefiore, R. Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer (the Ketav Sofer), R. Eliyahu Guttmacher, R. Wolf Heidenheim, R. Shimshon Refael Hirsch, R. Yaakov Ettlinger (the Aruch LaNer), Chacham Yitzchak Bernays of Hamburg, R. Akiva Lehren of Amsterdam, R. Elchanan Rosenstein of Berlin, Jonas Jeitteles of Prague, and many others (the names are written in Hebrew beneath the portraits).
The name and address of the publisher, with the year of publishing, are recorded at the foot of the leaf. The publisher included his portrait amongst those of the Torah leaders.
Photograph. 19.5X22 cm. Good condition. Stains. Mounted on thick paper.
